{"id":5474,"date":"2026-01-08T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/?guid=1a9567868f6311ec8e780fb880c3e36c"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:00:00","slug":"the-dawn-of-interventional-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/the-dawn-of-interventional-genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"The dawn of interventional genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"When I was young, my parents gave me a book by Paula Taylor called The Kids\u2019 Whole Future Catalog: A Book About Your Future, with the \u201cYour\u201d underlined for emphasis.1 In its pages were fanciful descriptions of things that even now are recognizable as classic science fiction tropes: hotels in space, floating cities, fusion power, robot housekeepers. In one of the chapters there was a section called \u201cGenetic Engineering: Creating New Forms of Life.\u201d I don\u2019t think I took too seriously the picture of a cat-size rhinoceros, presumably created to be some child\u2019s new best friend.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, my parents gave me a book by Paula Taylor called The Kids\u2019 Whole Future Catalog: A Book About Your Future, with the \u201cYour\u201d underlined for emphasis.1 In its pages were fanciful descriptions of things that even now are recognizable as c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articulos","category-the-american-journal-of-human-genetics","tag-amjhumgenet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sebigec.es\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}